ACCESS DIGITIZED EDITION
Guide/Reviews Database
INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Wood, Maryrose

Alice's Farm: A Rabbit's Tale

368 pp. | Feiwel | September, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-22455-2 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-250-22456-9 $9.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Christopher Denise. A folksy omniscient narrator tells the tale of two families, rabbit and human, that share a territory. Young cottontail Alice and her brother Thistle are enjoying their first spring in their home of Burrow. Humans Carl, his baby sister, and his hapless idealistic back-to-the-land parents have just moved to a nearby country farm. Carl and the bunnies find a common goal in foiling a rapacious real estate developer by ensuring the viability of the farm as Carl and the rabbits, with a little help from their friends (fox, bald eagle, family dog), invent and carry out various schemes. As an animal fantasy, this lies somewhere between Watership Down and The Tale of Peter Rabbit, with detailed and fascinating rabbit world-building à la Adams ("Rabbits have four birthdays a year, one for each season, so the kits of her litter were three months old in human time") and cozy, cadenced prose à la Potter ("brave the meadow, dodge the dog, outwit the farmer, and tunnel beneath the garden fence"). The storytelling is relaxed and digressive, the humor genially satiric, and the dialogue sparky. Fans of Cynthia Voigt's Young Fredle (rev. 3/11) will feel right at home, and readers of Charlotte's Web will delight in several sly echoes. An excellent choice for a family or classroom read-aloud.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2020

RELATED 

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

The Republic of Birds
by Miller, Jessica
INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Atlantis
by Mone, Gregory
INTERMEDIATE FICTION

It Doesn't Take a Genius
by Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola
INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls
by Rivera, Kaela
INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Soul Lanterns
by Kuzki, Shaw
More

Get connected. Join our global community of more than 200,000 librarians and educators.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.

ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER?